I'd say also, if I was usin' adjectives, that it was powerful alarmin'.

For Heaven's sake, Mr.
Panther, the state of affairs ain't so bad as that, is it ?" "It certainly is," replied the Panther.

"Ned Fulton here was all through their camp last night.

He can talk Mexican an' Spanish like lightnin' an' he makes up wonderful--an' he saw their whole army.

He saw old Santa Anna, too, an' fifty or a hundred generals, all covered with gold lace.
If we don't get a lot of fightin' men together an' get 'em quick, Texas will be swept clean by that Mexican army same as if a field had been crossed by millions of locusts." It was obvious that Crockett was impressed deeply by these blunt statements.
"What do you wish us to do ?" he asked the Panther.
"You an' your friends come with us.